Tobacco
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- Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program
- Research funding opportunities; research progress reports; conference proceedings and publications; newsletters; upcoming events.
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- UW - Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
- Academic center at the University of Wisconsin dedicated to researching tobacco dependence, providing intervention and outreach services for young people and adults, and developing policy initiatives to reduce tobacco use and resultant health and economic burdens. Tobacco facts, research study participation, grant opportunities, latest research findings.
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- Big Tobacco Looks for a Clean Getaway
- Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to the 1997 proposed deal with the tobacco industry.
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- Engle Trial News
- Large collection of articles, notes, and commentary on the Engle trial in Florida.
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- GASP of Colorado Education Center
- Tobacco information resources ranging from the costs to society to the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke.
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- Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
- Factsheets on tobacco, secondhand smoke, the tobacco industry, and cigarette sales.
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- How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works
- Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.
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- Leave The Pack Behind
- A campus smoking program which provides information for smokers and non-smokers.
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- Making Smoking History
- Article features public health worker who challenges the conventional view of smoking as an individual problem, and makes the case for tobacco as a societal health problem.
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- Men and smoking
- Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction.
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- National African American Tobacco Prevention Network
- A national network of Black tobacco-control and health promotion activists.
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- Proposed US Federal Tobacco Legislation
- Tech Law Journal summary of bills pertaining to tobacco sales and ads on the Internet.
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- Smokers Prayer
- Large list of links and resources compiled by an ex-smokers with COPD. Introduced by her own poem, the Smoker's Prayer.
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- Smoking From All Sides
- Links to pages for all perspectives of smoking. Includes sites about anti-smoking groups, commentary, health effects, cessation, celebrity smokers, statistics, news, history, and pro-smoking documents.
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- The Tobacco Lords
- Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to tobacco; includes China's Tobacco Wars; Addicting the Young; The Tobacco Lobby; Fighting for Smoke-free Skies; tobacco economics.
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- Tobacco Industry Tracking Database
- Searchable database contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and detailed indexing for over 11,000 articles, news stories, and other materials regarding the tobacco industry, clean indoor air campaigns, and other tobacco policy issues.
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- Cognitive Effects of Nicotine
- Report on studies of nicotine and other nicotinic agonists on improving performance on attention and memory tasks, as well as on treating Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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- Smoking Does Not Protect Against Dementia or Alzheimer's Disease
- Contrary to suggestions from previous research, this study of over 34,000 subjects found no effect of smoking on senility or Alzheimer's. The previous suggestions that it did came from flawed studies, say the authors.
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- Nicotine Studied as Treatment for Brain Disorders
- News article in Boston Globe about research indicating that nicotine seems to diminish mental impairment stemming from stress or an underactive thyroid, and may help people with brain disorders ranging from Alzheimer's disease to schizophrenia. (November 12, 2003)